Lynne Dale Halamish and Doron Hermoni
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195325379
- eISBN:
- 9780199999811
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325379.001.0001
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Palliative Medicine and Older People
This book is a practical and direct handbook for grieving. It presents 30 stories from real life that examine how we grieve and how we can help those who grieve—whether the griever is oneself, ...
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This book is a practical and direct handbook for grieving. It presents 30 stories from real life that examine how we grieve and how we can help those who grieve—whether the griever is oneself, someone we care about, or a client or patient. The authors present vignettes from practice that show how death—lingering, unexpected, violent, or self-inflicted—and the loss of a relationship—to oneself or with a child, sibling, parent, mate, grandparent, or friend—give life to grief, together with the process by which each person fully encounters his or her grief. Each story is no more than two or three pages, and the authors follow each one with a short summary of its teachings and a selection of annotated recent references for those who wish to read more about a topic.Less
This book is a practical and direct handbook for grieving. It presents 30 stories from real life that examine how we grieve and how we can help those who grieve—whether the griever is oneself, someone we care about, or a client or patient. The authors present vignettes from practice that show how death—lingering, unexpected, violent, or self-inflicted—and the loss of a relationship—to oneself or with a child, sibling, parent, mate, grandparent, or friend—give life to grief, together with the process by which each person fully encounters his or her grief. Each story is no more than two or three pages, and the authors follow each one with a short summary of its teachings and a selection of annotated recent references for those who wish to read more about a topic.
Sara Booth (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198530756
- eISBN:
- 9780191730481
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198530756.001.0001
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making
This is the fourth volume in an international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. In it, ...
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This is the fourth volume in an international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. In it, the editors bring together palliative care with oncological treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer. The book is presented in a user-friendly handbook format, with the use of tables and algorithms to ensure that it is portable, accessible, and can be read and referred to on, or before going to, the ward, or before a domiciliary visit. Specialists in palliative care and oncology settings, working in the acute sector and in hospices, will find the book useful. It will also appeal to consultants as well as specialist registrars, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners in palliative care and oncology. The Palliative Care Consultations series is primarily aimed at individuals working in an acute hospital cancer centre and/or tertiary referral centre. The books are designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems, both those rarely encountered and those that are very common but difficult. The volumes are site-specific and each encompasses a review of oncological or haemato-oncological management of advanced disease with symptom-control advice.Less
This is the fourth volume in an international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. In it, the editors bring together palliative care with oncological treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer. The book is presented in a user-friendly handbook format, with the use of tables and algorithms to ensure that it is portable, accessible, and can be read and referred to on, or before going to, the ward, or before a domiciliary visit. Specialists in palliative care and oncology settings, working in the acute sector and in hospices, will find the book useful. It will also appeal to consultants as well as specialist registrars, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners in palliative care and oncology. The Palliative Care Consultations series is primarily aimed at individuals working in an acute hospital cancer centre and/or tertiary referral centre. The books are designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems, both those rarely encountered and those that are very common but difficult. The volumes are site-specific and each encompasses a review of oncological or haemato-oncological management of advanced disease with symptom-control advice.
Ingo Gildenhard
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199291557
- eISBN:
- 9780191594885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199291557.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter focuses on how Cicero constructs specific human beings and human ‘types’, to which individuals are assigned. It first discusses the factors that underwrote the constitution and ...
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This chapter focuses on how Cicero constructs specific human beings and human ‘types’, to which individuals are assigned. It first discusses the factors that underwrote the constitution and reproduction of Rome's ruling elite, with particular emphasis on how Cicero combated what he stigmatizes as the ‘class racism’ of the nobility. Further sections consider how the category ‘nature’ was used in late republican rhetorical thought, as foil for an exploration of how Cicero deployed the lexemes natura and homo to construe persons as, first and foremost, human beings, quite irrespective of their historical identities. The chapter further illustrates Cicero's penchant for thinking in anthropological categories, and his reasons for doing so.Less
This chapter focuses on how Cicero constructs specific human beings and human ‘types’, to which individuals are assigned. It first discusses the factors that underwrote the constitution and reproduction of Rome's ruling elite, with particular emphasis on how Cicero combated what he stigmatizes as the ‘class racism’ of the nobility. Further sections consider how the category ‘nature’ was used in late republican rhetorical thought, as foil for an exploration of how Cicero deployed the lexemes natura and homo to construe persons as, first and foremost, human beings, quite irrespective of their historical identities. The chapter further illustrates Cicero's penchant for thinking in anthropological categories, and his reasons for doing so.
Alan M. Rugman and Thomas L. Brewer (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199241828
- eISBN:
- 9780191596834
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199241821.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
This handbook synthesizes all the relevant literature on international business over the last forty years in 28 original chapters by the world's most distinguished scholars. The coverage is split ...
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This handbook synthesizes all the relevant literature on international business over the last forty years in 28 original chapters by the world's most distinguished scholars. The coverage is split into five main areas: the history and theory of the multinational enterprise; the political and policy environment; strategies for multinational enterprises (MNEs); managing the MNE; and regional studies—business systems in Asia, Latin America, and the transitional economies. A concluding section has two chapters, one on methodological contributions and the direction of research activity and the other on MNEs and public policy. The handbook is aimed at scholars and students of international business and international economics/politics, lawyers, managers, and policy makers.Less
This handbook synthesizes all the relevant literature on international business over the last forty years in 28 original chapters by the world's most distinguished scholars. The coverage is split into five main areas: the history and theory of the multinational enterprise; the political and policy environment; strategies for multinational enterprises (MNEs); managing the MNE; and regional studies—business systems in Asia, Latin America, and the transitional economies. A concluding section has two chapters, one on methodological contributions and the direction of research activity and the other on MNEs and public policy. The handbook is aimed at scholars and students of international business and international economics/politics, lawyers, managers, and policy makers.
Todd W. Reeser
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226307008
- eISBN:
- 9780226307145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226307145.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter focuses on the sixteenth-century reception of Alcibiades’s seduction speech in the Symposium. Erasmus is aware of the issue of homoerotics, particularly in The Handbook of the Christian ...
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This chapter focuses on the sixteenth-century reception of Alcibiades’s seduction speech in the Symposium. Erasmus is aware of the issue of homoerotics, particularly in The Handbook of the Christian Soldier and in the Adages, as he evokes homoeroticism to discount it. Erasmus’s attempts to establish hermeneutic closure in his version of the Silenic image, and expunge Socratic eros. His religious approach contrasts sharply with François Rabelais’s famous Silenus Box in the prologue to Gargantua, for which Erasmus’s adage is assumed to have served as textual model. Rabelais mocks Erasmus’s straightened-out version of the image through comic means, suggesting that the reading out of Socratic sexuality should itself be mocked as an anti-historical hermeneutic approach. In this sense, the French writer directly distinguishes himself from other Renaissance translations of Plato, including Ficino whom he knew directly, and may be commenting on through the medium of fiction.Less
This chapter focuses on the sixteenth-century reception of Alcibiades’s seduction speech in the Symposium. Erasmus is aware of the issue of homoerotics, particularly in The Handbook of the Christian Soldier and in the Adages, as he evokes homoeroticism to discount it. Erasmus’s attempts to establish hermeneutic closure in his version of the Silenic image, and expunge Socratic eros. His religious approach contrasts sharply with François Rabelais’s famous Silenus Box in the prologue to Gargantua, for which Erasmus’s adage is assumed to have served as textual model. Rabelais mocks Erasmus’s straightened-out version of the image through comic means, suggesting that the reading out of Socratic sexuality should itself be mocked as an anti-historical hermeneutic approach. In this sense, the French writer directly distinguishes himself from other Renaissance translations of Plato, including Ficino whom he knew directly, and may be commenting on through the medium of fiction.
Daniel C. Russell
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199583683
- eISBN:
- 9780191745713
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583683.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter begins the argument that the Stoics’ thesis that virtuous activity is sufficient for happiness stems not from their belief that virtuous activity is the only good, but from the ...
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This chapter begins the argument that the Stoics’ thesis that virtuous activity is sufficient for happiness stems not from their belief that virtuous activity is the only good, but from the conjunction of that belief and their conception of virtuous activity as the exercise of choice in circumstances from which the self is always distinct. This chapter examines Epictetus’ articulation of that conception of activity. Following a close reading of Epictetus, Discourses I.1., the chapter argues that Epictetus’ conception of virtuous activity is an orthodox Stoic view.Less
This chapter begins the argument that the Stoics’ thesis that virtuous activity is sufficient for happiness stems not from their belief that virtuous activity is the only good, but from the conjunction of that belief and their conception of virtuous activity as the exercise of choice in circumstances from which the self is always distinct. This chapter examines Epictetus’ articulation of that conception of activity. Following a close reading of Epictetus, Discourses I.1., the chapter argues that Epictetus’ conception of virtuous activity is an orthodox Stoic view.
Curtis L. Meinert and Susan Tonascia
- Published in print:
- 1986
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195035681
- eISBN:
- 9780199864478
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195035681.003.0013
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter outlines the steps required in executing the trial, with emphasis on the steps to be carried out in getting started. Topics discussed include essential approvals and clearances, approval ...
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This chapter outlines the steps required in executing the trial, with emphasis on the steps to be carried out in getting started. Topics discussed include essential approvals and clearances, approval maintenance, developing study handbooks and manuals of operations, testing data collection procedures, developing and testing the data management system, training and certification, and phased approach to data collection.Less
This chapter outlines the steps required in executing the trial, with emphasis on the steps to be carried out in getting started. Topics discussed include essential approvals and clearances, approval maintenance, developing study handbooks and manuals of operations, testing data collection procedures, developing and testing the data management system, training and certification, and phased approach to data collection.
Margaret L. Satterthwaite
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199658244
- eISBN:
- 9780199949915
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0015
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
This chapter discusses the effects and operation of indicators that are used to guide and measure the work of humanitarian relief agencies in their on-the-ground operations in Haiti. It examines two ...
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This chapter discusses the effects and operation of indicators that are used to guide and measure the work of humanitarian relief agencies in their on-the-ground operations in Haiti. It examines two major sets of standards that were used as a form of self-regulation by several groups of major international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — such as the Sphere indicators — that are used by primary donors to guide certain decisions. This chapter also introduces the Sphere Handbook, which contains some regulatory silences.Less
This chapter discusses the effects and operation of indicators that are used to guide and measure the work of humanitarian relief agencies in their on-the-ground operations in Haiti. It examines two major sets of standards that were used as a form of self-regulation by several groups of major international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — such as the Sphere indicators — that are used by primary donors to guide certain decisions. This chapter also introduces the Sphere Handbook, which contains some regulatory silences.
Catherine Clinton
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780813066615
- eISBN:
- 9780813058764
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066615.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The great expansion of southern women’s history over the past half century has been fueled in part by the pioneering archival projects launched by women historians and other specialists. The SAWH ...
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The great expansion of southern women’s history over the past half century has been fueled in part by the pioneering archival projects launched by women historians and other specialists. The SAWH became an important resource for growing the field. A steady parade of researchers stopped begging for crumbs and began to make demands. These demands included marching right up to the front door, ringing the bell and refusing to be denied entry. The creation of guides to resources and digitization of resources has advanced research and writing in the field, transforming archives and collections by including issues of gender and sexuality. By applying pressure in a positive and persistent manner, historians and activists pushed ahead and created the framework for southern women’s history to flourish. A flurry of handbooks emerged as librarians and archivists began to amass new materials, to prepare and publish elaborate and engaging guides, and to connect these resources to larger questions in the field. The project of southern women’s history has become less about gatekeeping and more about raising the roof. The SAWH stimulated the expansion of southern history to be collected, recorded, sorted, and digitized for public consumption.Less
The great expansion of southern women’s history over the past half century has been fueled in part by the pioneering archival projects launched by women historians and other specialists. The SAWH became an important resource for growing the field. A steady parade of researchers stopped begging for crumbs and began to make demands. These demands included marching right up to the front door, ringing the bell and refusing to be denied entry. The creation of guides to resources and digitization of resources has advanced research and writing in the field, transforming archives and collections by including issues of gender and sexuality. By applying pressure in a positive and persistent manner, historians and activists pushed ahead and created the framework for southern women’s history to flourish. A flurry of handbooks emerged as librarians and archivists began to amass new materials, to prepare and publish elaborate and engaging guides, and to connect these resources to larger questions in the field. The project of southern women’s history has become less about gatekeeping and more about raising the roof. The SAWH stimulated the expansion of southern history to be collected, recorded, sorted, and digitized for public consumption.
Anna Botsford Comstock
Karen Penders St. Clair (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501716270
- eISBN:
- 9781501716294
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501716270.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter focuses on Anna Botsford and John Henry Comstock's return to Ithaca on August 4, 1908. The Comstock's new official quarters in Roberts Hall at Cornell University were of great interest ...
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This chapter focuses on Anna Botsford and John Henry Comstock's return to Ithaca on August 4, 1908. The Comstock's new official quarters in Roberts Hall at Cornell University were of great interest to them. At last, Henry had a large laboratory with ample windows, with no sashes to bring a bar across the field of the microscope. The insect collections were placed on the same floor as the lecture room, which is a great convenience. In contrast, Anna's experience was not so gratifying. The Nature Study Department was housed in the two west rooms on the fourth floor. The window in her room was so high that one could see out only when standing. Nevertheless, Anna had shelves for her books and a roll-top desk, which seemed a luxury. It was during the winter of 1909 that she conceived the idea of writing her Handbook of Nature Study. The chapter then looks at the expansion of the Comstock Publishing Company in December of 1909.Less
This chapter focuses on Anna Botsford and John Henry Comstock's return to Ithaca on August 4, 1908. The Comstock's new official quarters in Roberts Hall at Cornell University were of great interest to them. At last, Henry had a large laboratory with ample windows, with no sashes to bring a bar across the field of the microscope. The insect collections were placed on the same floor as the lecture room, which is a great convenience. In contrast, Anna's experience was not so gratifying. The Nature Study Department was housed in the two west rooms on the fourth floor. The window in her room was so high that one could see out only when standing. Nevertheless, Anna had shelves for her books and a roll-top desk, which seemed a luxury. It was during the winter of 1909 that she conceived the idea of writing her Handbook of Nature Study. The chapter then looks at the expansion of the Comstock Publishing Company in December of 1909.
Patrik N. Juslin and John A. Sloboda
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199230143
- eISBN:
- 9780191696435
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230143.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology
This introductory chapter first sets out the purpose of this handbook,
which is to explain how and why music may evoke emotion in a listener.
The aim is to provide a volume that, in true handbook ...
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This introductory chapter first sets out the purpose of this handbook,
which is to explain how and why music may evoke emotion in a listener.
The aim is to provide a volume that, in true handbook fashion, provides
useful practical information that can guide researchers, for instance
regarding the measurement of emotions. More generally, the handbook
provides a representative coverage of approaches that may be said to
define the field of music and emotion, in all its breadth and depth. An
overview of the eight sections of the book is presented.Less
This introductory chapter first sets out the purpose of this handbook,
which is to explain how and why music may evoke emotion in a listener.
The aim is to provide a volume that, in true handbook fashion, provides
useful practical information that can guide researchers, for instance
regarding the measurement of emotions. More generally, the handbook
provides a representative coverage of approaches that may be said to
define the field of music and emotion, in all its breadth and depth. An
overview of the eight sections of the book is presented.
Steve Woolgar and Daniel Neyland
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199584741
- eISBN:
- 9780191762994
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199584741.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Corporate Governance and Accountability
Chapter 5 examines the relationships between the authorities of governance, in particular, the governance system through which regional safety camera partnerships has been established across the UK, ...
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Chapter 5 examines the relationships between the authorities of governance, in particular, the governance system through which regional safety camera partnerships has been established across the UK, under the management of a national programme board, operated by the Department for Transport. In place of the messiness of Chapters 3 and 4, this example appears to provide an encompassing governance structure. However, on close engagement with the partnerships and those responsible for managing the programme board, it turns out that this governance structure does not straightforwardly pre-exist actions of governance. Despite a notionally standardized set of national guidelines, decisions are made and changed, and varied between partnerships. Structures and rules of governance are themselves subject to messy, ongoing ontological constitution.Less
Chapter 5 examines the relationships between the authorities of governance, in particular, the governance system through which regional safety camera partnerships has been established across the UK, under the management of a national programme board, operated by the Department for Transport. In place of the messiness of Chapters 3 and 4, this example appears to provide an encompassing governance structure. However, on close engagement with the partnerships and those responsible for managing the programme board, it turns out that this governance structure does not straightforwardly pre-exist actions of governance. Despite a notionally standardized set of national guidelines, decisions are made and changed, and varied between partnerships. Structures and rules of governance are themselves subject to messy, ongoing ontological constitution.
Kirsten Sword
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780226757483
- eISBN:
- 9780226757513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226757513.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Chapter Three details the gradual and contested process by which, by the 1750s, runaway ads had become a means by which ordinary men extended both their power over and their liability for dependents. ...
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Chapter Three details the gradual and contested process by which, by the 1750s, runaway ads had become a means by which ordinary men extended both their power over and their liability for dependents. The stories of a wife and an enslaved man who appeared side-by-side in the columns of Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette illuminate the legal parallels—and distinctions—between the authority of husbands and the authority of masters. Colonial authorities legitimized their growing investment in bound labor with novel statutes, creating a coercive infrastructure that made newspaper advertisements offering rewards for runaway servants and slaves seem like a natural extension of masters’ power. In contrast, when husbands placed ads discrediting their “eloping” wives, they called attention to the ways in which the press could circumvent formal legal authority and the wishes of local communities, problems not addressed by colonial marriage statutes or legal handbooks. Masters’ entitlement to the labor and persons of bondspeople sparked little debate; husbands who claimed similar powers or who sought to escape familial obligations provoked controversy. The proliferation of such disputes in the newspapers amplified the jurisdictional chaos underpinning transatlantic debates about marriage and divorce.Less
Chapter Three details the gradual and contested process by which, by the 1750s, runaway ads had become a means by which ordinary men extended both their power over and their liability for dependents. The stories of a wife and an enslaved man who appeared side-by-side in the columns of Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette illuminate the legal parallels—and distinctions—between the authority of husbands and the authority of masters. Colonial authorities legitimized their growing investment in bound labor with novel statutes, creating a coercive infrastructure that made newspaper advertisements offering rewards for runaway servants and slaves seem like a natural extension of masters’ power. In contrast, when husbands placed ads discrediting their “eloping” wives, they called attention to the ways in which the press could circumvent formal legal authority and the wishes of local communities, problems not addressed by colonial marriage statutes or legal handbooks. Masters’ entitlement to the labor and persons of bondspeople sparked little debate; husbands who claimed similar powers or who sought to escape familial obligations provoked controversy. The proliferation of such disputes in the newspapers amplified the jurisdictional chaos underpinning transatlantic debates about marriage and divorce.
Jakob Wisse
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199641895
- eISBN:
- 9780191746130
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641895.003.0011
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
Our understanding of the role that oratory played in Roman society and politics and the criteria applied to measure an orator’s performance and career, is partly based on ‘positive’ material: ...
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Our understanding of the role that oratory played in Roman society and politics and the criteria applied to measure an orator’s performance and career, is partly based on ‘positive’ material: contemporary opinions on good oratory, positive instructions in the rhetorical handbooks, portrayals of the ideal orator. This chapter demonstrates what a systematic examination of such negative views reveals about Roman oratorical practice and attitudes to oratory. The ‘bad orator’ emerges as a figure who can be criticised on both technical and moral grounds.Less
Our understanding of the role that oratory played in Roman society and politics and the criteria applied to measure an orator’s performance and career, is partly based on ‘positive’ material: contemporary opinions on good oratory, positive instructions in the rhetorical handbooks, portrayals of the ideal orator. This chapter demonstrates what a systematic examination of such negative views reveals about Roman oratorical practice and attitudes to oratory. The ‘bad orator’ emerges as a figure who can be criticised on both technical and moral grounds.
Valentina Arena
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199641895
- eISBN:
- 9780191746130
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641895.003.0012
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
This chapter explores how oratorical audiences were portrayed in works that were specifically meant to function as a means of practical guidance to the study of rhetoric. According to Cicero, the ...
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This chapter explores how oratorical audiences were portrayed in works that were specifically meant to function as a means of practical guidance to the study of rhetoric. According to Cicero, the ultimate power lay with the audience who would proclaim the orator’s success or failure by agreeing or rejecting his description of affairs. In these rhetorical texts, the audience is portrayed as holding this power by virtue of its prudentia, the attribute that elsewhere, Cicero reserves for the gubernator rei publicae. Moreover, emotion and reason are not necessarily in conflict. By a close analysis of rational means of persuasion, this essay will shed light on the way in which the process of persuasion was perceived in the late Republic: the function of rhetorical handbooks was to provide the speaker with proper, useful, ammunition to persuade a real, concrete, audience.Less
This chapter explores how oratorical audiences were portrayed in works that were specifically meant to function as a means of practical guidance to the study of rhetoric. According to Cicero, the ultimate power lay with the audience who would proclaim the orator’s success or failure by agreeing or rejecting his description of affairs. In these rhetorical texts, the audience is portrayed as holding this power by virtue of its prudentia, the attribute that elsewhere, Cicero reserves for the gubernator rei publicae. Moreover, emotion and reason are not necessarily in conflict. By a close analysis of rational means of persuasion, this essay will shed light on the way in which the process of persuasion was perceived in the late Republic: the function of rhetorical handbooks was to provide the speaker with proper, useful, ammunition to persuade a real, concrete, audience.
Alex Ling
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641130
- eISBN:
- 9780748652631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641130.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter presents a detailed critique of Alain Badiou's philosophical writings on cinema. It focuses on the ‘False Movements of Cinema’ chapter of his Handbook of Inaesthetics, his essay ...
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This chapter presents a detailed critique of Alain Badiou's philosophical writings on cinema. It focuses on the ‘False Movements of Cinema’ chapter of his Handbook of Inaesthetics, his essay Philosophy and Cinema and ‘Cinema as a Democratic Emblem’. The chapter considers the more immediate problems raised by these works and discusses a number of questions Badiou left unanswered.Less
This chapter presents a detailed critique of Alain Badiou's philosophical writings on cinema. It focuses on the ‘False Movements of Cinema’ chapter of his Handbook of Inaesthetics, his essay Philosophy and Cinema and ‘Cinema as a Democratic Emblem’. The chapter considers the more immediate problems raised by these works and discusses a number of questions Badiou left unanswered.
Michael Silverstein
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300196511
- eISBN:
- 9780300235678
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300196511.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
Analyzing Franz Boas's critically new insights under the lens of philology, this chapter redefines Boasian linguistics as a globalizing mode of mutual enlightenment through the exchange of ...
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Analyzing Franz Boas's critically new insights under the lens of philology, this chapter redefines Boasian linguistics as a globalizing mode of mutual enlightenment through the exchange of grammatical concepts between selves across borders of sound and sense—a process he calls “comparative calibrationism,” the asymptotic pursuit of the always-inaccessible yet ever-closer universal truth. It focuses on the Handbook of American Indian Languages, where Boas dismantled every plank in the language-focused platform on which inferences of evolutionary primitivism stand. Boas also went after the very applicability to American languages of the comparative method of historical linguistics, from which inferences of so-called linguistic families descended from single proto-languages emerged in the nineteenth century.Less
Analyzing Franz Boas's critically new insights under the lens of philology, this chapter redefines Boasian linguistics as a globalizing mode of mutual enlightenment through the exchange of grammatical concepts between selves across borders of sound and sense—a process he calls “comparative calibrationism,” the asymptotic pursuit of the always-inaccessible yet ever-closer universal truth. It focuses on the Handbook of American Indian Languages, where Boas dismantled every plank in the language-focused platform on which inferences of evolutionary primitivism stand. Boas also went after the very applicability to American languages of the comparative method of historical linguistics, from which inferences of so-called linguistic families descended from single proto-languages emerged in the nineteenth century.
Sheila R. Enders
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520252493
- eISBN:
- 9780520944565
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520252493.003.0053
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Gathering in groups, expressing their fears, frustrations, and hopes, 113 incarcerated women at the largest women's prison in the United States described their need for adequate health care inside ...
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Gathering in groups, expressing their fears, frustrations, and hopes, 113 incarcerated women at the largest women's prison in the United States described their need for adequate health care inside prison walls. Twenty focus groups met at Central California Women's Facility over a ten-month period in 2001 and 2002. The author of this chapter helped organize the groups so that incarcerated women could define ways to reduce their health and medical vulnerabilities inside the prison. The women's comments resulted in the compilation and publication of a handbook, Simple Answers to Difficult Healthcare Questions—Choice. The focus group discussions followed a predetermined set of questions in four areas: knowledge/information, experience/process, barriers, and outcomes.Less
Gathering in groups, expressing their fears, frustrations, and hopes, 113 incarcerated women at the largest women's prison in the United States described their need for adequate health care inside prison walls. Twenty focus groups met at Central California Women's Facility over a ten-month period in 2001 and 2002. The author of this chapter helped organize the groups so that incarcerated women could define ways to reduce their health and medical vulnerabilities inside the prison. The women's comments resulted in the compilation and publication of a handbook, Simple Answers to Difficult Healthcare Questions—Choice. The focus group discussions followed a predetermined set of questions in four areas: knowledge/information, experience/process, barriers, and outcomes.
Bethany Wiggin
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801476808
- eISBN:
- 9780801460074
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801476808.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter traces the polemics about poetry and fashion that raged throughout the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century and profoundly shaped the literary field. It foregrounds one novel, ...
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This chapter traces the polemics about poetry and fashion that raged throughout the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century and profoundly shaped the literary field. It foregrounds one novel, fashionable genre: the internally conflicted vernacular poetic handbook. The vitriol on display there is unmistakable, almost amusing to an audience removed from context three centuries hence, but those directly stung by the barbs must have found it somewhat harder to laugh. This chapter surveys some of the poisoned darts from the 1620s to the beginning of the next century, roughly from Opitz to Magnus Daniel Omeis (1646–1708), the last notable Präses (President) of Nuremberg's influential poetic society, and the Pegnesischer Blumenorden (Order of Flowers on the Pegnitz).Less
This chapter traces the polemics about poetry and fashion that raged throughout the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century and profoundly shaped the literary field. It foregrounds one novel, fashionable genre: the internally conflicted vernacular poetic handbook. The vitriol on display there is unmistakable, almost amusing to an audience removed from context three centuries hence, but those directly stung by the barbs must have found it somewhat harder to laugh. This chapter surveys some of the poisoned darts from the 1620s to the beginning of the next century, roughly from Opitz to Magnus Daniel Omeis (1646–1708), the last notable Präses (President) of Nuremberg's influential poetic society, and the Pegnesischer Blumenorden (Order of Flowers on the Pegnitz).
Julee T. Flood and Terry L. Leap
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501728952
- eISBN:
- 9781501728969
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501728952.003.0004
- Subject:
- Education, Higher and Further Education
The basics of the employment relationship and the job security hierarchy are explained along with the major elements of contract law. Contracts may or may not include only the "four corners" of a ...
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The basics of the employment relationship and the job security hierarchy are explained along with the major elements of contract law. Contracts may or may not include only the "four corners" of a contract letter, but such documents may also include faculty handbooks, memoranda of understanding, promises made during the interview process, past practices, and institutional culture. Prominent cases are examined as they pertain to the security of academic jobs.Less
The basics of the employment relationship and the job security hierarchy are explained along with the major elements of contract law. Contracts may or may not include only the "four corners" of a contract letter, but such documents may also include faculty handbooks, memoranda of understanding, promises made during the interview process, past practices, and institutional culture. Prominent cases are examined as they pertain to the security of academic jobs.
